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Hetty_ The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon - Charles Slack [116]

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shareholders of, 133

Chicago, Ill., 115–18, 131, 156, 208

loans to churches in, 189–90

real estate holdings in, 115–16, 135–36, 139, 187–88, 204

Chicago Times, 117

child labor, 31–32

Choate, Joseph, 142

cholera, 11

churches, loans to, 189–90

Cisco, John A., 88–91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 99

Cisco, John J., 88, 90, 97, 99

Civil War, 74, 101–2, 109, 137

capitalists and, 30–31, 32–33

greenback notes and, 72–73

New Bedford in, 23–24, 28

Clifford, John H., 23–24, 64

Clifford, Nathan, 64, 68–69

Colquitt, O. B., 185–86

Comer, George N., 61–62

Committee of Trust Companies, 168–69

Conde, Lisa, 236n

Congress, U. S., 11, 119, 120, 158

Connecticut River Railroad

Company, 115

Cortelyou, George B., 168–69

cotton boll weevil, 130

Crapo, William Wallace, 15, 48, 70–71, 157, 236n

Crocker, Charles, 119

Daggett, Mabel Potter, 170–71

Dart, Christopher, 125

Davis, Abner, 34, 43, 139, 140–41

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 168

Dewey (pet dog), 150, 153, 154, 155–56, 182, 237n

Douglass, Frederick, 5

Dreiser, Theodore, 144–45

Drew, Daniel, 166n

Eastman, Arthur, 33

Edward VII, King of England, 19, 196, 233n

Eliot, Thomas Dawes, 39

Elmendorf, Augustine, 192–93

Emery, William, 10, 17, 71, 204, 232n, 236n

England, 66–74, 105n, 212, 234n

Essex, 9

Evans, Benjamin, 5

Federal Reserve banking system, 169, 237n

Fisher, Mary, 7

Fisk, Jim, 30, 102

Flagler, Henry M., 30, 103

Flynn, John T., 73

Foote, Frederick W., 88–91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99

forgery allegations, 54, 60, 65, 66, 69, 233n

Forty Years of American Finance (Noyes), 101, 235n, 237n

Fox, George, 6

Frank, Isaac, 161

Gahagan, Charles, 156

Gates, Bill, xii

Georgia Central Railroad, 108–10, 123

Gibbs, Moses, 11

Giovanni del Drago, Prince Don, 174–75

gold, 70–71, 73, 133, 136

Goodspeed’s Book Shop, 210

Gordon, John Steele, x, 231n, 237n

Gordon, Maria, 43

Gordon, William A., 36–38, 39, 47, 157

as beneficiary, 41, 42–43, 47–48, 70

laudanum administered by, 37, 41, 45, 52. 53

as trustee, 41, 43, 48, 52, 70

Gould, Jay, ix, 30, 102, 106, 124

Gray, Pardon, 22, 27

as beneficiary, 40, 52, 69

Great Depression, 211–12, 216, 237n

Green, Anna, 76, 77–80

Green, Edward Henry, 48–50, 52, 64–74, 156–61, 181, 193, 225, 233n

as allegedly murdered, 162

background of, 48–49, 75–76

in Bellows Falls, 74, 75–80, 84–86

court testimony of, 51, 65

death of, 158–61, 162, 163

in England, 66–74

estate of, 160

financial difficulties of, 89–91, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 131–32, 160

fortune of, 50, 160

funeral of, 159–60

Hetty’s introduction to, 48, 49

Hetty’s relationship with, 49–50, 64–65, 78, 79, 100, 131, 156–58, 159

Hetty’s wedding to, 65

in Hoboken, 156–57

marital separation of, 100, 131

obituary of, 160–61

in Philippines, 48–49, 76

prenuptial agreement of, 66

son’s medical care and, 84–85

Texas Midland directorship of, 131–32

tombstone of, 203

as Wall Street trader, 85–86

Green, Edward Howland Robinson “Ned,” 68, 80, 97, 137, 143, 179, 196, 200–201, 202, 208–21, 225

appearance of, 112, 218

as auto racer, 185

business fantasies of, 114, 116–18

in Chicago, 115–18, 131, 208

collecting of, 210–11

death of, 213, 219

Easter egg hunt of, 215

electric car of, 213

estate of, 219–21

first job of, 115

funeral of, 219

and Hetty’s baptism, 192–93

as Hetty’s business assistant, 182, 186–89

as Hetty’s protégé, 111–12, 114–18, 123, 125–31

Hetty’s relationship with, 84, 113, 114–15, 235n

Hetty’s strokes and, 198–99

as honorary colonel, 185–86, 215

Huntington’s threat against, 126, 235n-36n

ill health of, 216, 218–19

impotence of, 216

inheritance of, 205, 206

investment strategy of, 211–12

leg amputation of, xi, 114, 235n

leg injury of, 83–85, 104, 112–15

medical care of, xi, 84–85, 113–14, 235n

pet dogs of, 217–18

philanthropy of, 215–16, 217

political activities of, 183–85

private yacht of, 208–9

railroad interests of, 118, 125–31, 158

at Round Hill, see Round Hill mansion and estate

scientific interests of, 129–30, 213–14

social life of, 130–31, 220

spending spree of, 208–17

Star Island estate

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